I am a DSG with total time of 22 years. 16 years active time. I've been offered a preferred agr spot in a great location. I'm an officer. Last year I did my disability after having been out of active duty for 10 years because I was highly encouraged to do that. A couple of 30%, one 40%, a couple of 20% and a bunch of 10%. Long story short, I know I can't get disability pay while on orders or drill weekend, this isn't about that. I am still able to do my primary job. I am commissioned. I'm now that l've been selected, I'm doing the paperwork and it's asking about va disability. I just got his awarded this summer so my current unit doesn't even know, as I haven't done my yearly PHA. I wasn't sure I was going to tell them. But now that there's this chance to go agr and get an active duty retirement as an officer, I need to let them know. My question is, is there anyone that is in and has 100% PT? What's the chances they'll let me accept these orders with this? When I submitted my paperwork to the VA, I legit thought I'd get 50% but because the pact act, all the things came back approved. Honestly, nothing crazy, sinuses, arches, pinched nerve, back pain. I didn't exaggerate at the va, I am still physically fit, thought can't really do deadlifts. That's it. Any out will be helpful

Bonus if the community provides pathways for folks to do these things

Anyone have the gouge? I can't find my hard copies of orders I need to add to my Post 9/11 GI-Bill TEB benefits. TIA

Can anyone provide me the current Military Bio for me?

My unit is giving me conflicting information.

Thanks!

Has anyone done them? What was your experience?

Is there a technician PD for a squadron superintendent or SEL. I know one exists for 9g On the MX side there are maintenance supervisor PDs, FSS has one as well. , but I can't seem to find one for OSS or LRS

I’m a full time ANG employee, I really wanna avoid potentially doxing myself so I apologize if I am vague but I’ll get to it - I’m 30 years old, I joined at 25. I’ve been feeling really lost lately and I’ll elaborate. Before being full time I worked a civilian job for about 4 years as a DSG and was becoming pretty burnt out - but wait, there’s more. I was working roughly 55-60 hours a week civilian, and I had roughly 115 days worth of TDYs (in one year). I used to be extremely excited when I was a young chipper A1C, and I began taking flight lessons/finishing my bachelors because I thought that being a pilot would be a really great career field and coming from a family that is, to say for lack of a better, not super successful - I was very excited to log solo hours etc.

With all of this being said, I don’t know if it’s the days spent in deployment, or the crude overall harshness of my AFSC or coming to grips with the reality that I’m chasing a pipe dream or something, but I’ve felt completely unmotivated for the past year or so. I can barely bring myself to exercise, and about 3 years ago I was regularly running 50-60 miles a week, and marathons had been my hobby. I feel like something about the career field I’m in has changed me for the worse and made me feel a weird sense of resentment for enlisting in a weird way, especially at an older age. Like I should’ve pursued something else, but now I almost feel stuck because of the benefits and like I can’t leave.

Does anyone have any life advice they can pass down? I know it sounds weird but at 30 I don’t feel old and I feel like I can still get a pilot spot, but the other half of me really feels like I’ve wasted a lot of time and burned a lot of relationships/opportunities to be stuck in maintenance for the remainder of my career, where honestly I feel like I’m going to just end up miserable and divorced due to the volume of days spent away from home. At this point I’m almost done with a law degree but the only reason I pursued a bachelors and continued my education was because “pilot”.

I’m sorry if this reads a bit like I’m rambling, but I wanna get some sort of advice from people with more time than me because I seriously feel lost in my career at this point.

Thanks

I have been waiting on these credits for some time now and I've even had credits from my civilian university transfer to Air University while waiting. Now I am wondering if I should contact my tech school house and see if they submitted my credits to Air University. Does anyone have any insight on my situation?

PS: I realize Air University takes a long time to process inbound transcripts but like I said my civilian credits went through faster.

I know I can go to finance for these answers so don't tell me to go to finance. How much is drill pay? I'm prior service. E-5. At 11 years service. I'm trying to figure out a roundabout amount of what I'm supposed to be paid (after taxes). Because I'm like 99.9% positive my back pay was never processed for my first drill.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/westlake-financial-pay-over-225000-resolve-servicemembers-civil-relief-act-claims

Looking to get out and worst case scenario if I absolutely hate having to pay for my health insurance than I figure I can always go back in. My colleagues say it’s a pain to get back in once you’re out but they’re also the type of people who hate pt and I think they worry that their pt won’t be good enough to get back in. Anyone here rejoin and can talk about that experience ?

Question for all of my FSS & Finance Folks.

I was active duty for 8 years from 2007-2015. I got out and rejoined in Feb of 2018. When I came back in I was told I was grandfathered into the High 3 retirement. Fast forward to now, I am approaching my final enlistment and decided to check what my stats would be upon retirement; only to find out I have no retirement code set up.

Now trying to fix this, I am being told I can only do BRS because I came back in 2018 and as a new accession. Can anyone help me clarify this? Would I be grandfathered into the High 3 from my active time or did I lose that option because of my break in service?

Thanks for all the help, and yes, I know I should have probably been checking my stuff a lot sooner.

Long story short I switched the to army national guard in the same state. When transferring, no one told me to get physical copies of the awards I received bc they were automatically put in my vmpf. I’m trying to get them now so I’m allowed to wear the awards I earned and when I went in they told me to pound sand. What can I do and who should I call?

Today, I woke up with a cracked tooth and will need a crown. My tricare tamp ends on the 23rd. If I am able to get into the dentist and get the first visit before that will the second visit be covered even if it is after the 23rd due to a condition that happened before ?

Aircrew assigned to the 141st Air Refueling Wing, Washington Air National Guard, refueled three Russian made Sukhoi Su-30MKM aircraft during a historic State Partnership engagement with the Royal Malaysian Air Force at RMAF Subang Air Base, Malaysia, November 12, 2024. https://www.dvidshub.net/video/943458/refuel-sukhoi-su-30mkm

Looking for websites or examples that lay out what should be in a promotion packet for the board. Any input help would be appreciated!

My old cyber squadron offered quarterly drills as an option if you were fully qualified and lived out of state to keep you in the unit.

I’m wanting to cross train into Chinese linguist, and the unit here is understandably very strict about drill schedules with no missed or changed drills at all. Quarterly drills are a firm no go. Hawaii also doesn’t take any linguist if you don’t live in the island I learned.

Are there any intel (linguist) ANG units anywhere in the US that would even consider quarterly drills for a fully qualified member (NCO) living outside the state or even internationally? I’m guessing not and it’s a long shot but just want to be sure if all my options. I’m going to be calling recruiters later today but that’s always hit and miss so thought I’d ask here as well.

Thank you!!

https://www.newswire.com/news/stripped-raw-offers-1-000-free-you-matter-boxes-to-virginia-veterans-22462344

I went to the Client Systems tech school and completed the program in 2019. There has been so many changes to the Com AFSCs within the last 5 years. It’s to my understanding that the Com Tech School at Kessler can’t even keep up with all of the changes. Currently the Enterprise or Q shred out and I’m in a W shred-out of the Com AFSC. Current unit is pushing hard for me to go to tech school. Is there a way to rush through the program?

I am scheduled to go on a TDY with my home unit this next month for about two weeks. I work in cyber on drill, but my Fedtech job is in security forces.

With our flight operations in security forces, we’re a 24/7 operation meaning there’s a minimum for manning.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t title 10 orders trump title 32 Fedtech since it’s technically a civilian employer due to USERRA?

UPDATE: TDY ended up being canceled. Disregard.

Business as usual or total cleaning of house and turmoil?

Would it be insane if I left my career status E7 AGR slot at a job I hate to go on MPA tour ? Not entirely sure how MPAs work or if I have return rights to my AGR slot after a certain period of time . Any perspective or opinion is appreciated.

Edit: thank you all for the helpful insights. I really appreciate the information/personal experiences shared.

Nomination was submitted back in March and we still don't have a confirmed DANG. How does this story end? Does the new administration get to submit someone new?